Family and Friends, it is time!
In a little over a month, I plan to get on a plane and fly to a third world nation whose predominant language is Spanish. This country is located in central America with a population of about 5.8 million people.
The landscape is a beautiful mixture of volcano chains, lagoons, beaches and mountains. The people are equally if not more beautiful.
Even with the beauty, Nicaraguans face an immense amount of poverty as the poorest country in Central America and the second poorest in the Western Hemisphere according to the CIA fact book. Children run around without shoes in dirt roads and their own dirt houses. The government turns off the electricity at will. Women hand wash clothes for about $1 per load (our machines in America make more than that). Dreaming isn't even a reality for the people of this nation.
However, you can look closer down there and see something happening. There are several different ministries down there, all doing something to help. A ministry called New Song Nicaragua has planted itself in the middle of an extremely poor village called Candelaria. They meet for church, just opened a restaurant focused on training the people to provide for themselves, and they go out to minister to these people and pray with them on a daily basis. There is a hostel which brings in people from all over the world just traveling through providing hospitality. There is a rehab started through the vision of a young lady in her twenties who want to see women and children who are abused or even trafficked find a way to get help, refuge, and hopefully to have a relationship with Jesus. There are several other ministries I have been told of, all helping to lay another stone in the walls of the Kingdom of God. It's beautiful.
Thankfully, I get to go down there to be a part of what God is doing. I plan to help primarily in the hostel, some in New Song, and hopefully the rehab facility in whatever way God leads me. What I do know is that God wants to reveal to these people that He is their hope. He has plans to give them hope in a hopeless society and that is the Good News. So thank you for being a part of this endeavor with me.
You can see what New Song is doing by going to www.NewSongNica.org. You can be a part financially by going to www.harvestequippers.org. (Just make sure to put my name in the memo )
